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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 05:51, 31 January 2018 [1].

K-25

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Nominator(s): Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:00, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Another article on the Manhattan Project. This one is about the gaseous diffusion project, codenamed K-25. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:00, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

Sources review

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Otherwise, sources look in good order and of appropriate quality and reliability. Brianboulton (talk) 14:35, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comments – Only found a couple of minor nit-picks to point out, not counting a couple of source formatting issues that Brianboulton caught. It's a good read.

  • Construction: I see J.A. Jones and J. A. Jones in this section. Pick one and stick with it; the latter usage is my personal preference.
    The problem here is that MOS:INITIALS says that "An initial is followed by a full point (period) and a space" but the corresponding article is not so named. Added a redirect to make the usage consistent in this article. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Other buildings: "bottled and stored fluorine. Fluorine...". Try not to repeat the same word from the end of one sentence to the beginning of another like this, as it comes off repetitive.
    Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Giants2008 (Talk) 00:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CommentsSupport by PM I'm not across the science, so am taking that as read. Not much to nitpick:

What I find interesting is that if I had been asked to design a method of isotope separation, I would have first thought of electromagnetic, and then centrifugal. But the scientists of the day thought first of thermal, and then of gaseous diffusion, harking back to 19th century physics. (I also thought that every reader would look at the number 1.0043 and then reach for their calculator to figure out how many stages are theoretically required in a perfect barrier system. But it could just be me.) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's me done. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CommentsSupport by CPA-5

That's it for now i can't find anything else but it looks great. CPA-5 (talk) 01:49, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 06:20, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I can't find anything more in my opinion the page has met the FA criteria. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 09:47, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Sturmvogel_66

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Hopefully I can help to put this one to bed.

  • No DABs or overlinking.
  • External links OK
  • Link roller to Road roller
  • I see that K-27 allowed the project to attain the 60% enrichment rate, but what allowed them to reach the 94% enrichment postwar? More stages?
    No, just by using the ones they had in a continuous series.Add a bit to make this clearer. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:31, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:02, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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